Georgian old rectory courtyard planted with toparised box

Planting design featuring swathes of Aliums and perennial planting

Naturalistic planting with foxgloves from a Sussex garden

Border design featuring Echineca from a Sussex garden

Exterior of Edwardian style house from restoration and conservation garden project

White climbing roses against pillars from a listed garden project

Bespoke garden design and heritage consultancy across Sussex and the South East

Pearson Dawson Gardens provides bespoke garden design and specialist consultancy across Sussex. With over 20 years of horticultural and estate management experience, we offer expert planting advice, garden planning, meadow creation and tailored reports for both private homes and large country estates. Our approach blends refined design insight with practical horticultural knowledge, creating gardens that are elegant, functional and deeply connected to their surroundings.

Our Core Services

A close up of a garden design by Pearson Dawson Gardens

The view of tow borders flanked by Yew trees from a garden maintenance project in Sussex

Practical Garden Consultancy

Bespoke Garden Design

Garden Maintenance & Management

Offering tailored advice for private gardens, historic landscapes, and larger estates. Our consultancy is grounded in horticultural expertise and an understanding of how gardens evolve over time.

We design gardens that develop naturally, gaining character and resilience rather than relying on short-lived trends.

Our approach is calm, meticulous and rooted in decades of hands-on experience meaning we can offer skilled horticultural care for gardens of all sizes across East and West Sussex.

Working with Listed Gardens

We help owners of listed properties understand what is possible, what is permissible and how best to protect the character and integrity of their landscape.

Summer scenes from our ongoing restoration project in East Sussex.

Coming up to two years of hard work in this garden and very satisfying to see its development.

Very early morning shot of the garden at Charleston by our @tomdawsongardens 🌿

An early morning peek at the walled garden at @charlestontrust in all its summer beauty. The bees were having a party on the opium poppies!

The end of May was all about the Lupins and rambling Roses at our ongoing restoration and maintenance project in East Sussex.

Hello March! We’ve been waiting for you! #pearsondawsongardens #gardendesign

🌿Another project with a Buxus parterre. The fight with the Box Moth Caterpillar goes on. 🌿

🌿Good morning from East Sussex. One of my long term projects which started over ten years ago and included landscape design, planting design, planting and long term management and maintenance. 🌿

After a long break from gardens, I’m back in a new guise! We are now Pearson Dawson Gardens, operating in Sussex and our new website is now LIVE! Thanks to @bathgardendesign for new images of our Bath gardens showing a lot of work from last year. Our new business is a little more streamlined offering design, planning and consultation. So spread the word! 🌿

Previous work for a beautiful garden in the SW with orchards and meadow as well as formal gardens.🌳

More past-life planting from me in Somerset. A large property with many areas that were redesigned and planted including this courtyard area. 🌳

Midsummer walled garden gloriousness from last year. Part of an enormous walled garden project. 🌳

Throwback to sunnier days and a previous garden of mine which was made up of converted farm buildings including this lovely tithe barn. 🌳

A large garden design and plant a few years ago creating an entirely white garden with structural topiary and multi stem trees. 🌳

Happy Weekend - here is a field of Alliums and Camassia Lilies I designed and my team planted a couple of years ago. 🌳

An oldie but a goodie. I planted Rosa New Dawn around the windows of this converted orangery (nearly 9 years ago) and we trained them to create a wonderful wall of roses. This entirely changed the feeling of the area that was previously unused. 🌳

Stunning day today here in East Sussex 🌳

A summery garden from last year, to make up for the utter bleakness of now. 🌳

When all you can think about is when is it going to stop raining? Consultation available in Sussex for gardens of all sizes. DM for details. 🌳

Happy new year. The winter bleakness is upon us, but soon it will be lighter again. 🌳

Happy new year to everyone. Some summer planting to make up for the utterly dreich weather today. New website coming soon. 🌳

Now the snow has left us and all is a bit bleak and grey, here is a lovely gate and arch at a garden where we introduced a lot of new planting and developed new areas. I can’t get enough of interesting gates…

Sadly the snow will be gone by the weekend, but here it is from Ditchling Beacon with incredible views over to Firle Beacon. Have a good weekend!

Plenty of snow and the brave little Erysimum keeps on flowering! 🌳❄️

Here’s another I did earlier. A bit of summer colour to look forward to. Alliums and Geums. 🌳

Clematis cirrrhosa balearica, one of my favourite winter climbers, masses of flowers and super gorgeous. Evergreen as a bonus point. Will scramble up anything and increases in size each year. Highly recommended. 🌳

Front gardens do not need to be bland or utilitarian. This one designed and planted by me made the most of the space by providing nooks for seating. It attracted a lot of admiration from passers-by and neighbours and including multi-stem Amelanchiers and a riot of height and texture in summer. 🌳

The gardens at @charlestontrust. Full to the brim in summer with exuberant height and interest, with a fascinating back history revolving around the Bloomsbury group. This garden would have been enjoyed by Virginia Woolf and many more. Open all year round and not far from Lewes. 🌳

Nature’s Christmas decs! It’s always cheering to see Haws or Crab Apples at this time of year. Or as a good friend of mine calls them, Crap-apples! 🍎

Need advice on specialist pruning? Now is the time of year to get ready for roses, fruit trees, climbers such as Wisteria, Figs and much more. Consultation and visits available. Message for info. 🍎

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